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BELT STRETGHER. No. 299,795. Patented June 3, 1884.

ATTORNEYS.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE,

eAEEisoN H. JoNEs, E LARWILL, INDIANA, ND JAMEs M. OHILOOTE, or EDGERION, OHIO.

BELT-=STRETCHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,795, dated June 3, 1884.

Application filed November 8, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: orifices at the outer ends of arms 0, secured at Be it known that we, GARRISON H. JONES, their inner ends to the body I) of the headat present residing in Larwill, Whitley county, block or clamp at. Indiana, and J AMEs M. OHILoorE, citizens of h h are bevel-pinions on the shaft n, which 5 the United States, said OHILcoTE residing at engage with the bevel-pinions h on the ends Edgerton, in the county of Williams and State of the bolts 6, and operates the movable head of Ohio, have invented certain new and useblockc,when rotary motionis imparted to the ful Improvements in Belt-Stretchers. of which shaft n by the crank 49, on one end of shaft n. the following is a specification. The operation of the device for stretching IO The object of our invention is to stretch belts or taking up the slack in them without and take up the slack in belts without reremoving them from their pulleys is as folmoving them from their pulleys; and our in lows: Remove the wedges and place theclamps vention consists in the peculiar construction on the under side of the ends of the belt at and arrangement of the parts for stretching a the splice, then introduce the wedges from 15 belt or taking up its slack, without removthe inner side of the spacebetween the lugs ing it fromits pulleys, as hereinafter more 7c k 76 k and press them into place on the fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims. inclined planes, then impart rotary motion Figure l is a plan view, and Figs. 2 and 3 to the crank, when the slack of the belt will are detail sectional views. be taken up after which the belt may be cut 2o Referring to the drawings, a represents a and laced or hooked or riveted together at stationary head-block or belt-clamp, which its ends as desired and the wedges and stretcherv is composed of a body, I), provided at its ends removed. with projecting blocks 0 0, each having a It will be observed that in this construction central longitudinal orifice, d, for the passage the wedges are introduced into the clamps 25 of bolts e e, which are threaded at their opfrom the inner sides of the latter, so that the posite ends, the threads extending some disstrain of the ends of the belt on the wedges tance along the bolts'e. The outer ends of tightens each wedge on the inclined planes on the bolts 6 e extend beyond the outer ends of which it rides.

the blocks 0 c, and are each provided with a Having thus fully described our invention, 3o bevel-pinion, h, at their outer ends. Each bolt what we claim as new, and desire to secure by e is provided with a flange, 1', against which Letters Patent, is

the inner end of the projecting blocks 0 abut. 1. The combination of the head-block a,

k 76 represent parallel lugs, secured to the provided with the parallel lugs 70 is, having body I) on the face of the head-block a, opinclined planes Z Z on their inner faces, the 35 posite that to which theblocksc c are secured. highest part of said planes being at the outer The lugs 7c are at right angles to the body 1) ends of the lugs k, and wedge 'm, substanof the head-block a, and each luglc is protially as shown and described, whereby the vided on its inner face with an inclined plane, outer strain on the end of the belt in stretchl, having the highest part of each at the outer ing it will tighten the wedge, as set forth. 4o ends of the lugs k. 2. The combination, with the stationary a represents a reciprocating head block or head-block a, provided with the orificed end, clamp of the same construction as the staprojecting blocks 0, and lugs k, having intionary head block or clamp a, and is comclined planes 1 Z, constructed as set forth, posed of the body I), having end projecting and reciprocating head-block a, of the same 45 block,c 0, provided with threaded orifices d, construction as head-block a, of the wedges and lugs Ic, provided with inclined planes 1 an m, bolts 6 6, each threaded near one end, on their inner faces, having the highest parts pinions h, and shaft n, carrying pinions h h, of the inclined planes at the outer ends of the substantially as shown and described.

lugs 70. GARRISON H. JONES. 50 mm are wedges inserted between the lugs JAMES M. OHILOOTE.

70 70, respectively, and bearing upon the in- 'Witnesses: clined planes Z Z Z Z. PHILo B. WILLIAMs, n represents a shaft having its bearings in JAMEs W. THORP. 

